The People's Commissariats will supposedly benefit from [transferring to] Gosplan (from the transfer of the Commission for Utilization into it), because this will make them more unaccountable.
(Kritsman. 30. XI.)

That the Commission for Utilization concerned itself with petty needs — this is to its credit, not its fault (sugar for mirror production; salt for silage; unsuitable flour for electric cells, etc.).

Written 30 November 1921

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the manuscript